Richard Hipp

Richard Hipp

BDFL, SQLite.org

Biography:

Richard Hipp is the original author of SQLite, and is as surprised as anyone else at how popular SQLite has become. These days, Richard leads a small band of intrepid hackers working furiously to maintain SQLite to the highest standards of the art. He also works on other open-source projects such as the Fossil version control system.

Sessions

SQLite is the most widely used and deployed database engine in the world
with many billions of active installations. But SQLite is not a competitor
to MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, or Oracle. SQLite solves a different
problem and is complementary to those other technologies.

SQLite is the SQL database engine that runs the world.
It is a critical component in all your devices. There
are more instances of SQLite running today than all other
database engines combined. This talk reviews the features,
capabilities, limitations, and usage patterns of SQLite
and asks why you are not using SQLite more yourself.